Correct, browsing should be covered by that bug report (bug 899858).
For any other transfer issues, there appears to be a workaround which seems to work properly in general for more people:
sudo hciconfig hci0 sspmode 0
This does work on my end to allow file transfer to reach other devices. It was also needed for auth to succeed prior to getting to test OBEXFTP.
There's a kernel patch being discussed (or nearing inclusion) that should fix this, but in the meantime that hciconfig command does appear to work for nearly everyone.
Correct, browsing should be covered by that bug report (bug 899858).
For any other transfer issues, there appears to be a workaround which seems to work properly in general for more people:
sudo hciconfig hci0 sspmode 0
This does work on my end to allow file transfer to reach other devices. It was also needed for auth to succeed prior to getting to test OBEXFTP.
There's a kernel patch being discussed (or nearing inclusion) that should fix this, but in the meantime that hciconfig command does appear to work for nearly everyone.